org.freedesktop.Notifications vs. org.kde.StatusNotifier*

Posted Aug 11, 2010 10:43 UTC (Wed) by sladen (guest, #27402)
In reply to: Standardised interfaces vs. standardised implementations by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Ubuntu: "We have no plans to fork GNOME" (derStandard.at)

So the objection is not that current versions of K/Ubuntu (≥9.04) ship free software that talks the org.freedesktop.Notifications.* D-Bus protocol, but that future versions of K/Ubuntu (≥10.10) may ship free software that talks the org.kde.StatusNotifier* protocols aswell.

Is one protocol really more evil than the otherbecause it contains "kde" in the path? A frequent demand heard in free software circles is "go away and show me the code"; yet that appears to have happened here.

org.freedesktop.Notifications vs. org.kde.StatusNotifier*

Posted Aug 11, 2010 11:04 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Let me be clear. I am not objecting to anything. Someone else asked what was the divergence in Ubuntu's GNOME from upstream and I was responding to that. Whether it is a good change or not is a completely different point.